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Artsy 2D PUBG Replay Is Excellent

A YouTube user name McDrahir has uploaded a replay that depicts a disastrous attempt at storming an apartment building in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But it’s also pretty good abstract art. From an “in game” perspective, what is going on in the video is pretty comical. A team of two players have posted up in a building,…

Netflix will no longer be available on the original Wii after January 30, 2019. The official Netflix site says that “Nintendo will suspend all video streaming services on Wii” on that date. 

Everything Xbox Announced During XO18

This afternoon there was a special edition of the Inside Xbox show as part of X018, an event which is “a global celebration of all things Xbox,” and lots of things were announced for the Xbox universe of games. There were a lot of moving parts to the two-hour episode, so here’s a breakdown of…

Sea of Thieves will get a competitive mode, Arena, in early 2019, Rare announced today at XO18. Crews will compete to get the most treasure.

The Final Fantasy XIII series—the original, XIII-2, and Lightning Returns—are all heading to Xbox One’s backward compatibility next week, Square Enix said at X018 today. They join the other Final Fantasy classics heading to Xbox One in 2019.

The original Crackdown is free on Xbox this month, Microsoft announced today at its X018 event in Mexico City.

Yuna Is Coming To Dissidia Final Fantasy NT

The summoner Yuna is making her way from Final Fantasy X (and the criminally overlooked Final Fantasy X-2) to the arena brawler Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, and she’s bringing a big friend. Dissidia NT is a little bit of a complicated game, and despite putting a couple dozen hours into it I wouldn’t say that…

Hollow Knight developers Team Cherry have announced that physical editions of the game have been cancelled. The studio wrote in a blog post that producing physical copies was “more work than [they] could reasonably manage” as a team of three people.

Bloodborne Once Had A Giant Snake Ball Boss

Data digger Lance McDonald has released a new video about a discovery from deep in the game files of Bloodborne. It is a boss named Snake Ball, and it is scary. As McDonald explains in the video, the big snake thing is yet another unused enemy in Bloodborne, and yet it seems pretty darn complete…

A UFC fighter whose nickname is “Cowboy” and who’s also a real-life cowboy likes the cowboy game. Ahead of his fight against noted buffoon Mike Perry this weekend, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone told TMZ that he’s “obsessed” with Red Dead Redemption 2 despite not considering himself a gamer. When asked if he was an honorable cowboy,…

A competitive King of Fighters 2002 match was spotted in a recent report on the Argentine Antarctica base of Marambio, showing just how far the fighting game community can travel. Scope out that old-school dual arcade stick setup!

Normal mechanical keyboard switches are either on or off. The switches in Cooler Master’s programmable ControlPad are analog, giving users pinpoint control over things like acceleration or movement. It’s sort of likethe Wooting One I reviewed earlier this year, only much smaller. Check it out on Kickstarter.

It’s Tetris Effect Day y’all. Come watch me play some expert mode, master mode, and all the modes. Join us in the chat too!

Cloudpunk, A Cyberpunk Game Where You’re A Courier

This is Cloudpunk, a PC game where you play as a courier for a “semi-legal delivery company”. Seems like it’s set during the events of a single night, and has you meeting “a diverse range of characters including androids, AI and unscrupulous humans at every level of society” as you move around both on foot…

Activision Says It’s Not Happy With Destiny‘s Sales

Sales for Destiny 2: Forsaken have not lived up to Activision’s expectations, the publisher said today on an earnings call, promising investors a faster content model and new forms of monetization for the game. This comes at a time when the Destiny fanbase is as happy as it’s ever been, which raises serious questions about…

Heather and Paul are punching Nazis and capturing objectives in Battlefield V right now on Twitch. Come join chat and watch!

Overwatch Probably Won’t Get A Hero Wackier Than Wrecking Ball

There was a time, hard as it might be to remember, when Overwatch’s wackiest hero was a peanut-butter-loving science ape from the moon. Earlier this year, however, he was usurped by a mech-piloting, robo-voiced, Thunderdome-battling hamster who’s also from the moon. How do you top that? Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan isn’t sure he wants to.…

When Hearthstone Pros Get Bored, Out Come The Wacky Decks

Hearthstone’s Boomsday Project expansion has been live for two months now, and as tends to happen at the end of the expansion cycle, the game is beginning to feel like a waiting room for the December 4 launch of the next set, Rastakhan’s Rumble. Iterations of Hearthstone’s most powerful decks have reigned for months, and…

Hello, Agent 47. Me and Riley are streaming Hitman 2 right now on Twitch. Come join chat for some press sneaky action and, um… “accidents.”

DC Universe Online‘s Atlantis Update Takes Players Under The Sea

Darling it’s better down where it’s wetter, take it from Aquaman, the half-human Atlantean monarch who’s fighting for his crown in today’s massive edition to Daybreak’s long-running superhero MMO. Man, what took the game so long to get wet? One of the earliest missions I remember in DC Universe Online when it launched back in…